diff --git a/RecoTauTag/RecoTau/python/TauDiscriminatorTools.py b/RecoTauTag/RecoTau/python/TauDiscriminatorTools.py
index 77ec1f74c9501..6497dcd92fced 100644
--- a/RecoTauTag/RecoTau/python/TauDiscriminatorTools.py
+++ b/RecoTauTag/RecoTau/python/TauDiscriminatorTools.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def subParameterSets(pSet):
 
 # For RECO type taus, where the tau producer is [tauType]Producer 
 import re
-recoTauTypeMapperRegex = re.compile("(\w*)Producer")
+recoTauTypeMapperRegex = re.compile("(\\w*)Producer")
 def recoTauTypeMapper(tauProducer):
    return recoTauTypeMapperRegex.match(tauProducer).group(1)
 
diff --git a/RecoTauTag/RecoTau/python/tools/runTauIdMVA.py b/RecoTauTag/RecoTau/python/tools/runTauIdMVA.py
index 309964e2476e9..d8cba685cf236 100644
--- a/RecoTauTag/RecoTau/python/tools/runTauIdMVA.py
+++ b/RecoTauTag/RecoTau/python/tools/runTauIdMVA.py
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ def getDeepTauVersion(self, file_name):
         """returns the DeepTau year, version, subversion. File name should contain a version label with data takig year \
         (2011-2, 2015-8), version number (vX) and subversion (pX), e.g. 2017v0p6, in general the following format: \
         {year}v{version}p{subversion}"""
-        version_search = re.search('(20[1,2][125678])v([0-9]+)(p[0-9]+|)[\._]', file_name)
+        version_search = re.search('(20[1,2][125678])v([0-9]+)(p[0-9]+|)[\\._]', file_name)
         if not version_search:
             raise RuntimeError('File "{}" has an invalid name pattern, should be in the format "{year}v{version}p{subversion}". \
                                 Unable to extract version number.'.format(file_name))